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    Louis de Saint-Gelais, seigneur de Lanssac and baron de La Mothe-Saint-Héray (1512/1513, Cornefeu – 1593, Précy-sur-Oise) was a French noble, soldier...
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    Meslin-l'Évêque, Moulbaix, Ormeignies, Ostiches, Rebaix, Villers-Notre-Dame, and Villers-Saint-Amand. Ath is known as the "City of Giants" after the...
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    Hotman (1485–1554), Seigneur de Villers-St-Paul, jure uxoris and Paule de Marle, heiress of the Seigneurie de Vaugien and Villers-St-Paul. His grandfather...
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  • Blumenfeld, Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, Louis-Emile Durandelle, Martin Kollar, Germaine Krull, Henri Le Secq, Man Ray,...
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    Saint-Louis-de-Pintendre from territories taken from the Parish of Notre-Dame-de-la-Victoire, the Parish of Pointe-Lévi and the Parish of Saint-Henri. 18...
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    Roussillon. Louis-Armand-François de La Rochefoucauld, duc d'Estissac, grand master of the King's wardrobe. François-Marie de Villers la Faye, comte de Vaulgrenant...
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    went on to marry the General Antoine Marie Paris d'Illins. She died at Villers-sur-Mer, Calvados, aged 79. Every Wednesday and Saturday Anne Louise held...
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  • Cazet de Vautorte 1658–1674: Robert de Gravel 1679–1688: Louis de Verjus 1716–1723: Jacques-Vincent Languet de Gergy 1726–1730: Théodore Chevignard de Chavigny...
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    the theme was himself." Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (later known as Alexandre Dumas) was born in 1802 in Villers-Cotterêts in the department of Aisne...
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    Louis-Aragon, located in De Sessevalle. École primaire Marie-Curie, located in the town center. École primaire Désiré-Chevalier, located in Villers-Campeau...
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    Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy and Villers-lès-Nancy. The oldest part of Nancy is the quarter Vieille Ville – Léopold, which contains the 14th century Porte de la Craffe, the...
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    Panthéon (redirect from Panthéon de Paris)
    been transported from their original interment site in the Cimetière de Villers-Cotterêts in Aisne, France. In his speech, President Jacques Chirac stated...
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    Aisne (category Departments of Hauts-de-France)
    Château de Coucy. Among the many places to explore are: Monuments Castle of Villers-Cotterets at Château-Thierry Château de Condé Château de Coucy Castle...
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    Marcel was sent to live with his maternal grandparents in the village of Villers-Robert, a place where he would spend the next eight years, and which would...
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    Château de Villers-Cotterêts. The May Edicts issued on 8 May 1788 were also opposed by the public and parlement. Finally, on 8 August, Louis XVI announced...
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    southern limit with Ledringhem is chemin de Rubrouck. In 1436, Wautier de Ghistelles was seigneur d'Ekelsbeke et de Ledringhem (Lord of Esquelbecq and Ledringhem)...
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    Revolution. The King abdicated, as did his son the Dauphin Louis Antoine, in favour of his grandson Henri, Count of Chambord, nominating his cousin the Duke of...
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  • Houilles (6) v Angers (2) AS Villers Houlgate Côte Fleurie (5) v FC Équeurdreville-Hainneville (6) US Laon (6) v Racing Club de France Football (4) Saint-Michel...
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    Wespelaar (1798) 1791 L. Radelet Château de la Tour au Bois in Villers-le-Temple (1791) 1805 A. Dubois Château de Sélys-Longchamps in Waremme (1805) 1806...
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    Corbie Abbey (category Libraries in Hauts-de-France)
    Jean IV de Fontaines 1261–1269 : Pierre I de Mouret 1269–1287 : Hugues III de Vers 1287–1315 : Garnier de Bouraine 1315–1324 : Henri I de Villers 1324–1351 :...
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    (missionary) - half brother and missionary Louis Cognet, "Fénelon," Dictionnaire de Spiritualité, 5:151. Ed. M. Viller et al. Paris: Beauchesne, 1964. Chad...
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    and agricultural lands and the châteaux of Ardenne, Ciergnon, Fenffe, Villers-sur-Lesse and Ferage. He also built important country estates on the French...
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    1539. In 1539, in his castle in Villers-Cotterêts, Francis signed the important edict known as Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts, which, among other reforms...
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    1754: Marie-Charles-Louis d'Albert de Luynes, Duke of Chevreuse 1771: François-Henri de Franquetot de Coigny, Duke of Coigny 1783: Louis-Joseph-Charles-Amable...
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    the starting point of two new avenues, the modern President-Wilson and Henri-Martin. Creating the Place Victor Hugo, the starting point of avenues Malakoff...
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  • Vieillot – Louis Pierre Vieillot (1748–1830) Vieweg – C. F. Vieweg Vigors – Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785–1840) Villers – Charles Joseph de Villers (1724–1810)...
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  • 1964 by Richard Clark. The English Hangmen from 1850 to 1964 by Richard Clark. Histoires de Bourreaux Liste des Bourreaux de France by Jean-Louis Garret....
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    titulaire, issue de Christian Louis Anne Henri de La Fare (né à Tours en 1857) (filiation en ligne légitime à sourcer) Lainé, P. Louis (1834). Archives...
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  • the morning of 21 August and Houlgate in the afternoon. The brigade took Villers-sur-Mer and Deauville on 22 August, and Trouville-sur-Mer and Honfleur...
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    1600–1612: Jean VI Martin 1614–1646: François II de La Béraudière 1646: Jean VII d'Estrades 1646–1652: Philibert de Brandon 1654–1665: Cyr de Villers-la-Faye 1666–1693:...
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